lip

1. (transitive) To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something).Examples: "[…] a hand that Kings / Haue lipt, and trembled kiſſing."; "Our love was like the bright snow-flakes, Which melt before you pass, Or the bubble on the wine which breaks Before you lip the glass;"; "Once […] at dawn, I heard a bull-moose lipping tree-buds, and lay still in my blanket while the huge beast wandered past, crack! crash! and slop! slop!through the creek […]"transitive

2. (transitive, figurative) (of something inanimate) To touch lightly.Examples: "He moved the boat onward very slowly, lipping the glossy surface delicately with the light oars."figurativelytransitive

3. (intransitive, transitive) To wash against a surface, lap.Examples: "It was very soothing and restful up there on the saloon deck, with no sound but the gentle lipping of the water as it rippled against the sides of the steamer."; "So on I went, and by my side, it seemed, Paced a great bull, kept from me by a brook Which lipped the grass about it as it streamed Over the flagroots that the grayling shook;"; "The mist that lipped against the wall behind him hung overhead like a ceiling, hiding any stars."intransitivetransitive

4. (intransitive) To rise or flow up to or over the edge of something.Examples: "Below, the swollen Eden, lipping full from bank to bank, rolled yellow and surly to the sea."; "The rest of the herd were grouped so close to the water’s edge that from time to time a lazy, leaden-green swell would come lipping up and splash them."; "The sun lipped over the mountain by now, shone on the corrugated-iron roofs of the five sanitary units, shone on the gray tents and on the swept ground of the streets between the tents."intransitive

5. (transitive) To form the rim, edge or margin of something.Examples: "[…] old Macrae, of Adrfeulan Farm near by, had caused rude steps to be cut in the funnel-like hollow rising sheer up from the sloping ledge that lipped the chasm and reached the summit of the scaur."; "1920, W. E. B. Du Bois, Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe, Chapter 9, p. 242, It was a tiny stone house whose front window lipped the passing sidewalk where ever tramped the feet of black soldiers marching home."; "The woman had slipped to the very edge of the rock—the edge that lipped the fury of the Pit. She was half over. And she was slipping—slipping...."transitive

6. (transitive) To utter verbally.Examples: "Salt tears were coming, when I heard my name / Most fondly lipp’d […]"transitive

1. (geology) Abbreviation of large igneous province.abbreviationalt-of